Nearly 7.5m. Vehicles on the Roads
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THE number of vehicles on the roads of this country rose by over 500,000 last year to a total of 7,427,101, as at September 30. The number of hackney vehicles, however, dropped from 101,426 at September 30, 1956, to 98,818 a year later.
At last year's date there were 62,682 oil-engined hackneys, 12,435 petrol, 3,441 trolleybuses and 1,612 trams. A further 18,648 had up to eight seats.
Goods vehicles aggregated 1,215,480, compared with 1,173,311 a year earlier. The 1957 total was made up as follows: Up to 1 ton unladen, petrol, 480,702, oil, 1,431, electric. 13,835; 1-2 tons, petrol, 221,773, oil, 9,193, electric, 8,288; 2-3 tons, petrol, 264,937, oil, 60,606, electric 674; over 3 tons. petrol, 53,911, oil, 99,748, electric, 382,
Registrations of new commercial vehicles last December, at 12,478, reflected the low seasonal trade activity. It was more than 4,000 fewer than in the preceding month. The total number of commercial vehicles newly registered last year-198,842-compares with 204,130 for 1956. The decline was largely in the "other goods" category. Details appear in the accompanying table.
WHEN the Watford-Doncaster motorway is open in two years, there will be much less traffic on the new Markyate by-pass, on which the accident rate is as severe as if was on the old road through the village. This was stated by Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, last week in a written reply to Mr. Ernest Davies.
B.C.Y. FOUR-DAY WEEK MPLOYEES at the Kingswood works I-0 of Bristol Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., have decided to work a four-day week following discussions between the management and the trade union. The recommendation was accepted last week by a meeting of the workers, and had it not been accepted there might have been redundancies at the works.